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Every figure is taken from a named source, and you can tap any underlined figure on a page to see where it comes from. Where sources disagree we show the range rather than pick a number. If you find an error, tell us at info@berlinfographics.com; we correct it on the page concerned.

All infographics

• The Berlin Airlift, 1948–49 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Alfred Grenander, the U-Bahn’s architect — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Berlin’s currywurst: the count, the claim and the rivals — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Berlin’s Reichstag elections, 1920–1933 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Café Kranzler, from Unter den Linden to the Kurfürstendamm — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Deported from Berlin, 1941–45 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Eduard Gaertner’s Berlin, from a church roof — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Expelled: the purge of Germany’s universities, 1933–45 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Five Berlin women, five institutions — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Georg Kolbe and the Nazi state — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Karstadt am Hermannplatz — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Lesser Ury's Berlin at night — landscape PNG · square PNG
• One majority in 21 elections: the CDU/CSU in the Bundestag, 1949–2025 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Painters to the Prussian court, 1711–1915 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Six women artists of Weimar Berlin — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin: 3.77 million spectators and a false picture of tolerance — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Berlin Marathon, 1974–2026 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Berlin Trade Exhibition, 1896 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Bundeskanzleramt, Berlin’s Federal Chancellery — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Märkisches Museum, Berlin — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Märkisches Viertel, West Berlin’s first large estate — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Twenty-Three into Twelve: Berlin’s District Reform — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Wallot’s Reichstag and its dome, 1882–1999 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Alexandrowka, Potsdam’s Russian Village — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Berlin, District by District — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Berlin’s four universities, 1696–2024 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Berlin's Unbuilt Cycle Network, 2016–2025 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Carl von Ossietzky: the editor convicted for printing a secret, 1929–1938 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• German Nobel laureates: the forty years Germany led the science prizes, 1901–2025 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Germany’s federal chancellors, 1949–2026 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Hobrecht's Radial Sewers, 1873–1909 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Karlsruhe’s landmark rulings, 1956–2021 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Lichterfelde's Electric Tram, 1881 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Riehmers Hofgarten, Kreuzberg — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Schinkel’s Friedrichswerdersche Kirche — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Gloria-Palast on the Kurfürstendamm — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Wedding and Gesundbrunnen, 1709–2001 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• A Reformed court over a Lutheran country, 1613–1817 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Adolph Menzel paints Berlin — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Bebelplatz, 10 May 1933: the book burning and the writers it named — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Berlin’s ghost stations, 1961–1992 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Berlin’s Huguenots, 1685–1809 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Berlin’s lost homes, borough by borough, 1943–1946 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Berlin’s population, 1871–2024 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Cities in Ruin: Warsaw, Stalingrad, Berlin — landscape PNG · square PNG
• City Gates of Potsdam — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Counting the dead of the Battle of Berlin, 1945 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• From the V-2 to the Saturn V, 1928–1969 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• German Defenders: the Berlin order of battle, April 1945 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Germania: the capital Hitler never built, 1937–1943 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Häftlingsfreikauf: West Germany buys East Germany's political prisoners, 1962–1990 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Hidden Berliners: the Jews who went under, 1941–45 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• JFK in Berlin, 26 June 1963 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Marshall vs Morgenthau: what Washington planned for Germany, 1944–1952 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Nazi conquests in Europe, 1939–41 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Nollendorfplatz and Paragraph 175: the law that outlived Hitler — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Operation Gold: the Berlin spy tunnel, 1953–56 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Prussia’s nine kings, 1701–1918 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• RAF Gatow: the field with four owners, 1935–1995 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• SA vs SS: the smaller organisation took the power, 1921–1946 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Schinkel, Persius, Stüler — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Spandau: the Allied prison and its seven Nazi war criminals, 1947–1987 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The 20 July plot, 1944 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The 99-Day Emperor — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Battle for Berlin, 16 April – 2 May 1945 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Berlin border strip in cross-section — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Berlin March Revolution, 1848 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Berlin Wall, from wire to rubble, 1961–1990 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The bombing of Berlin, 1940–45 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Bridge of Spies, 1962–1986 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Captain of Köpenick, 1906 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The cost of the Berlin offensive, 16 April – 8 May 1945 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The dead of the Berlin Wall, 1961–1989 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The East German exodus before the Wall, 1949–1961 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The end of the camps: liberation dates, 1944–45 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The gun line: Soviet artillery in the Berlin operation, 1945 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Hohenzollern crypt under the Berliner Dom — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Hohenzollerns, five titles in five centuries, 1417–1918 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Hohenzollerns, from Elector to Kaiser — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Potato King — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Race to Berlin, 16 April – 2 May 1945 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Reichstag in five acts, 1894–1999 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Seven Years’ War, 1756–1763 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Soviet Embassy on Unter den Linden — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The stolen carrier: Wolfgang Engels at Heidelberger Straße, 1963 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Tiergarten felled and replanted, 1945–1959 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The West Berlin S-Bahn boycott, 1961–1984 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Tiger II and IS-2 in the Battle of Berlin, 1945 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• US Troops in Germany, 1945–2024 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Where they died: the dead of the Berlin Wall — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Wilhelm II and the family on nine thrones, 1914 — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Four years, twenty-one months, six months — all ended on one February morning — landscape PNG · square PNG
• The Reichstag Building Went 57 Years Without a Plenary Sitting — landscape PNG · square PNG
• Ten days from Hitler’s last public appearance to suicide — landscape PNG · square PNG
• For 28 years, Berlin’s defining gate was made inaccessible — landscape PNG · square PNG

Contact

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